Hi there, Quick poll:
How many have used Docker to run BackupPC in a container? My question stems from Github/BackupPC issue #559. [1] In private correspondence, one of the contributors to that issue has been having trouble with setting up the recent *rc1 packages. To test, I modified the Dockerfile from adferrand [2] and I used this to build a Docker image and from that image start container that then at startup configures BackupPC from scratch if it has not previously been run (if it has been run it reads the configuration from the host storage). After the first start I configured BackupPC manually using the Web UI and told it to make its first backup. As until this I was quite unfamiliar with Docker that took about three days in total. Now that it's done I have a Dockerfile and a couple of shell scripts which make firing up a container running the latest *rc1 versions of the three BackupPC packages entirely automatic. Assuming that the Docker daemon is already running and that the rc1 tarball for rsync-bpc-3.4.1.0rc1 is in Docker's .../files/ directory it's a simple matter to create empty directories for non-volatile data on the host, then execute ./build (which might take a couple of minutes) followed by ./run (which takes seconds) to spin up the container then configure, install and start a BackupPC installation based on BackupPC-4.4.1rc1 BackupPC-XS 0.63rc1 rsync-bpc-3.4.1.0rc1 This setup did its first backup here this afternoon. Perhaps more people might be interested in helping me test...? [1] https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/559 [2] https://github.com/adferrand/docker-backuppc -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
